OK - it is not truly summer until Lisa Gardner kicks off a new novel with us. This year, it is a doozy. Live to Tell is a fast paced thriller with a really thought-provoking story line. I couldn't put it down and keep thinking about it, days later.

We're having our event at Horsefeathers because we thought it would be fun! We'll be upstairs and we encourage people to come early and grab some dinner before the event. This is going to be a fun night. I will be reminding everyone again, but mark your calendars NOW - you don't want to miss this.
For those of you who cannot make the event, but want to participate in the “virtual” signing, just click the preorder tab below, send us your details and we’ll contact you from there. Remember, you can order any of Lisa’s books and get them personalized. We’ll mail the books out to you the next day.

On a warm summer night in one of Boston’s working-class neighborhoods, an unthinkable crime has been committed: Four members of a family have been brutally murdered. The father—and possible suspect—now lies clinging to life in the ICU. Murder-suicide? Or something worse? Veteran police detective D. D. Warren is certain of only one thing: There’s more to this case than meets the eye.
Danielle Burton is a survivor, a dedicated nurse whose passion is to help children at a locked-down pediatric psych ward. But she remains haunted by a family tragedy that shattered her life nearly twenty-five years ago. The dark anniversary is approaching, and when D. D. Warren and her partner show up at the facility, Danielle immediately realizes: It has started again.
A devoted mother, Victoria Oliver has a hard time remembering what normalcy is like. But she will do anything to ensure that her troubled son has some semblance of a childhood. She will love him no matter what. Nurture him. Keep him safe. Protect him. Even when the threat comes from within her own house.
In New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner’s most compelling work of suspense to date, the lives of these three women unfold and connect in unexpected ways, as sins from the past emerge—and stunning secrets reveal just how tightly blood ties can bind. Sometimes the most devastating crimes are the ones closest to home.

I was lucky enough to see Gary talk a couple of years ago at a book event. He has a lot of great energy and a broad vision to go with it. In fact, I found him rather fascinating. We’ll be at Tin Mountain to sell Gary’s latest book and we can’t wait to hear what he’s got to say about the current state of the environment, business practices, carbon emissions and more.

A true force for change, Gary Hirshberg has been at the forefront of movements working for environmental and social transformation for 30 years. From his early days as an educator and activist to his current position as president and CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm, the world's largest organic yogurt company, Hirshberg's positive outlook has inspired thousands of people to recognize their ability to make the world a better place.
In Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World, Hirshberg calls on individuals to realize their power to effect change in the marketplace—"the power of one"—while proving that environmental commitment makes for a healthier planet and a healthier bottom line. Drawing from his 25 years' experience growing Stonyfield Farm from a 7-cow start-up, as well as the examples of like-minded companies, such as Newman's Own, Patagonia, Wal-Mart and Timberland, Hirshberg presents stunning evidence that business not only can save the planet, but is able to simultaneously deliver higher growth and superior profits as well.
Hirshberg illustrates his points with practical information and advice, as well as engaging anecdotes from what he calls "the bad old days" of his yogurt company: how a power outage left him milking cows by hand, how a dumpster fire revealed the need for better packaging, and his camel manure taste test challenge to a local shock jock. He also describes hands-on grassroots marketing strategies—printing yogurt lids with provocative, politically charged messages; handing out thousands of free samples to subway commuters to thank them for using public transit; and devising the country’s first organic vending machine—explaining how these approaches make a much more powerful impact on consumers than traditional advertising.
An inspiring book for business owners and managers as well as anyone interested in saving the environment, Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World demonstrates how companies can work to save the planet, while achieving greater profits and satisfaction, and how we can all use the power of conscious consumption to encourage green corporate behavior.

James Griffin is a lifelong horseman, Western enthusiast and unofficial historian of the Texas Rangers. A member of the Connecticut Horse Patrol and owner of a paint horse named Yankee, he brings his heart and soul to all of his westerns. The author of several novels featuring Texas Ranger Jim Blawcyzk, Griffin has also written a western for the young adult crowd.
Patricia Gott is a retired businesswoman and lifelong cowgirl who presently resides in South Paris, Maine. An accomplished equestrian who trains her own horses, Gott has been horse trekking in nine states and on four continents. She has written three books for adults and two books of children’s horse stories.
White Birch Books is pleased to have these two authors together and we welcome the whole family to come and enjoy the author round-up! I have never seen such enthusiasm and it’s been a good long while since we’ve had cowboys in the shop.

Published by Aracdia, this is a picture history of Story Land. Jim Miller, who served as Story Land's marketing coordinator and general manager, is well suited to put this book together. I haven’t seen it yet, but I am already smitten by the cover with an original Cinderella. I think we all have memories of Story Land and this will be a perfect book to remind us of them. We’re looking forward to this event to support a local author writing about a local landmark.

When sedans and station wagons replaced trains for vacationers heading to New Hampshire's rugged and picturesque White Mountains, new motels and attractions catering to middle-class families sprang up amidst the established grand hotels and diversions for socialites, artists, skiers, and hikers. In 1954, a tiny children's park inspired by a collection of storybook dolls opened in the quiet village of Glen. Through a unique combination of independent innovation and regional cooperation, Story Land has continually grown for more than 50 years through economic and cultural changes that undermined many amusement parks. Parents still travel great distances for a Story Land getaway with their children, just as their own parents did, sharing a common experience that is talked about between multiple generations at family gatherings. This photograph collection illustrates the unlikely beginnings and creative entrepreneurship behind one of New England's most memorable and enduring childhood institutions.

Part of our Sunday afternoon author series, Kevin will be traveling up from Cambridge, Mass., to read his poetry and we hear that he will have his mother with him because it is her birthday. So, poetry, birthday celebration and the good folks at White Birch Books – does it get any better?

Round Trip is a collection of poems by Kevin McLellan in collaboration with fifteen women poets. It is Number Six in the Seven Kitchens Press Editor's Series. Kevin McLellan has recent or forthcoming poems in journals including Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Drunken Boat, Exquisite Corpse, Hunger Mountain, Interim, Southern Humanities Review. He is an MFA graduate of Vermont College and teaches creative writing at the University of Rhode Island (Providence). Kevin lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Kevin's collaborators are: Nellie Bellows, Carrie Bennett, Jessica Bozek, Connie Donovan, Andrea Dulberger, Rebecca Griffin, Kate Faragher Houghton, Karen Lepri, Pelle Lowe, Diana McLellan, Caroline Mercurio, Sue Nacey, Heather Overby, Judi Silverman, and Cheryl Clark Vermeulen.titutions.

We just had a fantastic event with local author Freddie Wilkinson and his book, One Mountain Thousand Summits, which was about a recent tragedy on K2. Now, we are pleased to host Jennifer Jordan with her look at the very first climbing casualty on the mountain. Jordan has done extensive research on K2, living at base camp twice. Her first book, Savage Summit: The Life and Death of the First Women of K2, won the 2005 National Outdoor Book Award for Best Mountain Literature. She also created, wrote, and co-produced the documentary Women of K2 for National Geographic, which was an official entry in scores of major film festivals, winning five. Jordan has become a celebrated public speaker, routinely addressing audiences of all ages and backgrounds on the many issues raised in her book and films. At our event, she will be giving a multi-media presentation that she’s put together to go with her book.

In 1939 the Savage Mountain claimed its first victim. Born into vast wealth yet uneasy with a life of leisure, Dudley Wolfe, of Boston and Rockport, Maine, set out to become the first man to climb K2, the world’s second-highest mountain and, in the opinion of mountaineers, an even more formidable challenge than Mt. Everest. Although close to middle age and inexperienced at high altitude, Wolfe, with the team leader, made it higher than any other members of the expedition, but he couldn’t get back down. Suffering from altitude sickness and severe dehydration, he was abandoned at nearly 25,000 feet; it would be another sixty-three years before Jennifer Jordan discovered his remains.
In a story where The Great Gatsby meets Into Thin Air, readers follow Wolfe from the salons of Europe to the most forbidding landscape on earth. Wolfe went to K2 to find his own strength, only to encounter his teammates’ lethal weaknesses in a place called the Death Zone.

Sunday, August 22, 3 p.m. at White Birch Books
MARK OKRANT, author of Icy Reception

Mark Okrant has been to the store before with his series of mysteries at the grand hotels. Now he’s got a new book and we’re happy to have him again. Mark Okrant is a professor of tourism management at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. He has conducted tourism research in South Dakota, New Hampshire, Maine, Alaska, Canada, and Romania, and is past president of a leading global organization for tourism researchers, the Travel and Tourism Research Association. And, in his spare time, he writes mysteries and has very cleverly placed his lead character in a position to work crimes scenes at historic resort hotels. To date, his sleuth, Kary Turnell, has solved crimes at the Balsams Resort (A Last Resort) and at the Mount Washington Hotel (I Knew You When). His newest book, Icy Reception, has Kary on a cruise in the Arctic – a kind of floating grand hotel.

Professor and former crime reporter, Kary Turnell, sets sail on an Arctic adventure cruise aboard the MS Explorer. While the passengers are preoccupied with the shimmering spectacle of the Northern Lights and daunting vistas of Baffin Island, one individual seizes the opportunity for murder. The clues are few and the trail is rapidly growing cold as Kary and a hastily assembled team of volunteer investigators tries to reveal who pushed a guest into the frigid water below. Can Kary solve another resort caper before the floating crime scene docks at the next port, while attempting to regain the trust of a daughter who seems determined to make him pay for past mistakes?